Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker is really fretting over John McCain possibly tapping Condoleezza Rice as his running mate in the fall. The though must apparently scare him so much that he has to rewrite history:
This space is usually devoted to pristine moral reasoning, but, hell, it’s an election year. Let’s get down and dirty. If McCain really wants to have it all””to refurbish his maverick image without having to flip-flop on the panderings that have tarnished it; to galvanize the attention of the press, the nation, and the world; to make a bold play for the center without seriously alienating “the base”"”then he can avail himself of a highly interesting option: Condoleezza Rice.To deal first with the obvious: Rice may be “only” the second woman and the second African-American to be Secretary of State, but she is indisputably the highest-ranking black female official ever to have served in any branch of the United States government. Her nomination to a constitutional executive office would cost McCain the votes of his party’s hardened racists and incorrigible misogynists. They are surely fewer in number, though, than the people who would like to participate in breaking the glass ceiling of race or gender but, given the choice, would rather do so in a more timid way, and/or without abandoning their party. And with Rice on the ticket the Republicans could attack Clinton or Obama with far less restraint.
Need I remind Mr. Hertzberg as to who is the party of “hardened racists” and sexists? It was after all the Democrats that promoted slavery, formed the KKK and filibustered the Civil Rights act. And today it is Democrats that talk about how they will vote for Obama because he is black and Hillary because she is a woman. It is the Democratic Party that is home to radical feminist sexist organizations like the National Organization of Women and that have embraced Margaret Sanger’s eugenics whose ideas of murdering black children in the womb to help end what she saw as a racial scourge upon the planet are disgusting to anyone with a brain.
We keep hearing about how racist Republicans and conservatives are. But when we actually look at the truth, we find the real story. And the real story is that the racists and the sexists are in the Democratic Party. We’ll see how badly this hurts them in November.
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